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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, May 12

At 3-0 in the BTS vs. Colbert challenge, we believe our point has been made. It’s possible that we haven’t seen the last of the once — and future? — presidential candidate around these parts, so check back in a few weeks for an update on that front.

We now return to your regularly scheduled Streak Report:

Last night left patrons at the Streakland Diner wanting just a little more.

Mark Teixeira (1-for-4) and Ichiro Suzuki (2-for-5) brought home the bacon for 26 percent of all pickers, and fellow top-5 selections Andre Ethier (1-for-4) and Joey Votto (2-for-4) buttered toast for an additional 8.8 percent, so the meal was off to a good start.

But Troy Tulowitzki and Adam Lind failed to show up with eggs and pancakes — as we had previously agreed upon — due to 0-for-0 passes.

Not that we couldn’t survive on bacon and buttered toast, but that pair should know breakfast — no matter when you eat it — is always the most important meal of the day.

Without that satisfying sustenance of scrambled goodness piled high atop an even higher stack of fluffy flapjacks, it might be tough to make …

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Cano doubtful after beaning last nite. Posey doubtful after catching some foul balls with his mask, while wearing it. Check TB lineup before lock, Longoria took a solid drilling last nite. For others riding the bench today, may want to check rotoworld before games lock.

I’ve taken Vladimir Guerrero to get me back to 1. I still can’t believe I took Jeter who was 2 for 7 (now 2 for 10) against Vin Mazzaro ahead of Mark Teixeira who was 4 for 8. I also play Baseball Hot Streak on foxsports.com. I usually take the same player for both (both streaks were 15) but after 1:05 I started to lose confidence in Jeter and thankfully switched my pick to Teixeira. Mark was walked on his first 2 plate appearances and lined out on his 3rd then he came within 1/4 of a step of getting an infield single on his 4th trip. However he rescued my hotstreak in the 9th with a leadoff single and that streak is now 16. I’m taking Guerrero in hotstreak too.

Grinding my teeth I went with the hated Evil Empire and Holliday homered in 1st AB. Now I hope the Cubbies can come back and win the series; but the Cards appear to repay the Cubs back for yesterday’s spanking. Oh well.

——————————————–Highest “No Selection” :P pg# 6 with streak of 16 back to zero.
Yesterday’s Top2500 Reset rate was 14.25% with Jacoby Ellsbury reseting the most.
There was also 17.66% PPD due to players not playing, These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.

@Champ88. I can answer that last question since I wrote the program. No. The program is only aware of the Top2500 (100 pages of 25 streakers per page). There is no way we are going to know how many actually play the game unless Dave tells us. They do know because the post their top 15 picks each day; just don’t tell us what that percentage is based off.

Prado blooped a single in between 2 outfielders in the 1st inning to move me onto 5!

I think I may be lucky that that was ruled a hit though.

Now I have to worry about it being changed to an error later in the game/after the game.

And to those who say it cannot happen, I saw Carlos Gonzalez get an infield single in the top of the 11th inning a week or so ago and by the bottom of the inning, it had been changed to a fielding error.

Something similar happened to me too, but it took 2 innings for the official scorer to change it. BTW: If Prado’s ball wasn’t touched before it hit the ground, it will never be called an error; regardless how “easy” the play looked.

Guerrero just got hit by a pitch and has been removed from the game, now both streaks are at 0. :(:(
Jeter’s hit is like an insult to my streak but I would have lost it along with the Hotstreak on Guerrero.

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